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Article: Anarchy Shapes S. Africa Politics // Summary Executions Shock Observers
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 12, 1994
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MMABATHO, South Africa The three white men in ripped khaki
uniforms and boots lay sprawled Friday beside their bullet-riddled
blue Mercedes-Benz. One man was dead, his head in a pool of gore,
while the other two bled slowly into the red earth as they talked.
They were from Naboomspruit, a farming town farther north, said
Fanie Uys, his face contorted in pain and sweating in the brutal
midday sun. They had come with several thousand other armed
right-wing Afrikaners to lend support to the embattled black homeland
regime of Bophuthatswana's tin-pot dictator, Lucas Mangope.
Beside him, face down in the dirt, Alwyn Walfaardt lifted his
bearded head. No, he said, it wasn't a mistake to ...